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Crit Care Med ; 52(8): 1183-1193, 2024 Aug 01.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38488429

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OBJECTIVES: Low cholesterol levels in early sepsis patients are associated with mortality. We sought to test if IV lipid emulsion administration to sepsis patients with low cholesterol levels would prevent a decline or increase total cholesterol levels at 48 hours. DESIGN: Phase II, adaptive, randomized pilot clinical trial powered for 48 patients. SETTING: Emergency department or ICU of an academic medical center. PATIENTS: Sepsis patients (first 24 hr) with Sequential Organ Failure Assessment greater than or equal to 4 or shock. INTERVENTIONS: Patients meeting study criteria, including screening total cholesterol levels less than or equal to 100 mg/dL or high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) + low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) less than or equal to 70 mg/dL, were randomized to receive one of three doses of lipid emulsion administered twice in 48 hours or no drug (controls). The primary endpoint was a change in serum total cholesterol (48 hr - enrollment) between groups. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: Forty-nine patients were enrolled and randomized. Two patients randomized to lipid emulsion were withdrawn before drug administration. Data for 24 control patients and 23 lipid emulsion patients were analyzed. The mean change in total cholesterol from enrollment to 48 hours was not different between groups and was 5 mg/dL ( sd 20) for lipid emulsion patients, and 2 mg/dL ( sd 18) for control patients ( p = 0.62). The mean changes in HDL-C and LDL-C were similar between groups. Mean change in triglycerides was elevated in lipid emulsion patients (61 mg/dL, sd 87) compared with controls (20 mg/dL, sd 70, p = 0.086). The 48-hour change in SOFA score was -2 (interquartile range [IQR] -4, -1) for control patients and -2 (IQR -3, 0) for lipid emulsion patients ( p = 0.46). CONCLUSIONS: Administration of IV lipid emulsion to early sepsis patients with low cholesterol levels did not influence change in cholesterol levels from enrollment to 48 hours.


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Colesterol , Emulsiones Grasas Intravenosas , Sepsis , Humanos , Proyectos Piloto , Masculino , Sepsis/tratamiento farmacológico , Sepsis/mortalidad , Femenino , Persona de Mediana Edad , Emulsiones Grasas Intravenosas/administración & dosificación , Emulsiones Grasas Intravenosas/uso terapéutico , Anciano , Colesterol/sangre , Unidades de Cuidados Intensivos , HDL-Colesterol/sangre , LDL-Colesterol/sangre
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BMC Med Res Methodol ; 24(1): 22, 2024 Jan 25.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38273261

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When multiple influential covariates need to be balanced during a clinical trial, stratified blocked randomization and covariate-adaptive randomization procedures are frequently used in trials to prevent bias and enhance the validity of data analysis results. The latter approach is increasingly used in practice for a study with multiple covariates and limited sample sizes. Among a group of these approaches, the covariate-adaptive procedures proposed by Pocock and Simon are straightforward to be utilized in practice. We aim to investigate the optimal design parameters for the patient treatment assignment probability of their developed three methods. In addition, we seek to answer the question related to the randomization performance when additional covariates are added to the existing randomization procedure. We conducted extensive simulation studies to address these practically important questions.


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Proyectos de Investigación , Humanos , Simulación por Computador , Probabilidad , Distribución Aleatoria , Tamaño de la Muestra , Ensayos Clínicos como Asunto
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J Biomed Inform ; 149: 104581, 2024 01.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38142903

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OBJECTIVE: To develop a lossless distributed algorithm for regularized Cox proportional hazards model with variable selection to support federated learning for vertically distributed data. METHODS: We propose a novel distributed algorithm for fitting regularized Cox proportional hazards model when data sharing among different data providers is restricted. Based on cyclical coordinate descent, the proposed algorithm computes intermediary statistics by each site and then exchanges them to update the model parameters in other sites without accessing individual patient-level data. We evaluate the performance of the proposed algorithm with (1) a simulation study and (2) a real-world data analysis predicting the risk of Alzheimer's dementia from the Religious Orders Study and Rush Memory and Aging Project (ROSMAP). Moreover, we compared the performance of our method with existing privacy-preserving models. RESULTS: Our algorithm achieves privacy-preserving variable selection for time-to-event data in the vertically distributed setting, without degradation of accuracy compared with a centralized approach. Simulation demonstrates that our algorithm is highly efficient in analyzing high-dimensional datasets. Real-world data analysis reveals that our distributed Cox model yields higher accuracy in predicting the risk of Alzheimer's dementia than the conventional Cox model built by each data provider without data sharing. Moreover, our algorithm is computationally more efficient compared with existing privacy-preserving Cox models with or without regularization term. CONCLUSION: The proposed algorithm is lossless, privacy-preserving and highly efficient to fit regularized Cox model for vertically distributed data. It provides a suitable and convenient approach for modeling time-to-event data in a distributed manner.


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Enfermedad de Alzheimer , Privacidad , Humanos , Modelos de Riesgos Proporcionales , Enfermedad de Alzheimer/diagnóstico , Algoritmos , Simulación por Computador
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Neuromodulation ; 26(4): 829-839, 2023 Jun.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35410769

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OBJECTIVES: Complex walking in older adults can be improved with task practice and might be further enhanced by pairing transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) to the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. We tested the hypothesis that a single session of practice of a complex obstacle negotiation task paired with active tDCS in older adults would produce greater within-session improvements in walking performance and retention of gains, compared to sham tDCS and no tDCS conditions. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A total of 50 older adults (mean age = 74.46 years ± 6.49) with self-reported walking difficulty were randomized to receive either active tDCS (active-tDCS group) or sham tDCS (sham-tDCS group) bilaterally to the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex or no tDCS (no-tDCS group). Each group performed ten practice trials of an obstacle negotiation task at their fastest safe speed. Retention of gains in walking performance was assessed with three trials conducted one week later. Within-session effects of practice and between-session retention effects on obstacle negotiation speed were examined. RESULTS: At the practice session, all three groups exhibited significant within-session gains in walking speed (p ≤ 0.005). However, the gains were significantly greater in the sham-tDCS group than in the active-tDCS and no-tDCS groups (p ≤ 0.03) and were comparable between the active-tDCS and no-tDCS groups (p = 0.89). At one-week follow-up, the active-tDCS group exhibited significant between-session retention of gains and continued "offline" improvement in walking speed (p = 0.005). The active-tDCS group showed significantly greater retention of gains than the no-tDCS (p = 0.02) but not the sham-tDCS group (p = 0.24). CONCLUSIONS: Pairing prefrontal active tDCS with a single session of obstacle negotiation practice may enhance one-week retention of gains in walking performance compared to no tDCS. However, the evidence is insufficient to suggest a benefit of active tDCS over sham tDCS for enhancing the gains in walking performance. Additional studies with a multisession intervention design and larger sample size are needed to further investigate these findings. CLINICAL TRIAL REGISTRATION: The Clinicaltrials.gov registration number for the study is NCT03122236.


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Estimulación Transcraneal de Corriente Directa , Humanos , Anciano , Negociación , Caminata , Corteza Prefrontal/fisiología , Método Doble Ciego
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Mov Disord ; 37(2): 325-333, 2022 02.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34724257

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BACKGROUND: Rasagiline has received attention as a potential disease-modifying therapy for Parkinson's disease (PD). Whether rasagiline is disease modifying remains in question. OBJECTIVE: The main objective of this study was to determine whether rasagiline has disease-modifying effects in PD over 1 year. Secondarily we evaluated two diffusion magnetic resonance imaging pulse sequences to determine the best sequence to measure disease progression. METHODS: This prospective, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial assessed the effects of rasagiline administered at 1 mg/day over 12 months in early-stage PD. The primary outcome was 1-year change in free-water accumulation in posterior substantia nigra (pSN) measured using two diffusion magnetic resonance imaging pulse sequences, one with a repetition time (TR) of 2500 ms (short TR; n = 90) and one with a TR of 6400 ms (long TR; n = 75). Secondary clinical outcomes also were assessed. RESULTS: Absolute change in pSN free-water accumulation was not significantly different between groups (short TR: P = 0.346; long TR: P = 0.228). No significant differences were found in any secondary clinical outcomes between groups. Long TR, but not short TR, data show pSN free-water increased significantly over 1 year (P = 0.025). Movement Disorder Society Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale testing of motor function, Part III increased significantly over 1 year (P = 0.009), and baseline free-water in the pSN correlated with the 1-year change in Movement Disorder Society Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale testing of motor function, Part III (P = 0.004) and 1-year change in bradykinesia score (P = 0.044). CONCLUSIONS: We found no evidence that 1 mg/day rasagiline has a disease-modifying effect in PD over 1 year. We found pSN free-water increased over 1 year, and baseline free-water relates to clinical motor progression, demonstrating the importance of diffusion imaging parameters for detecting and predicting PD progression. © 2021 International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society.


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Enfermedad de Parkinson , Imagen de Difusión por Resonancia Magnética , Progresión de la Enfermedad , Método Doble Ciego , Humanos , Indanos/farmacología , Indanos/uso terapéutico , Enfermedad de Parkinson/complicaciones , Enfermedad de Parkinson/diagnóstico por imagen , Enfermedad de Parkinson/tratamiento farmacológico , Estudios Prospectivos
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Clin Rehabil ; 35(8): 1196-1206, 2021 Aug.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33722075

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OBJECTIVE: To assess changes in walking function and walking-related prefrontal cortical activity following two post-stroke rehabilitation interventions: an accurate adaptability (ACC) walking intervention and a steady state (SS) walking intervention. DESIGN: Randomized, single blind, parallel group clinical trial. SETTING: Hospital research setting. SUBJECTS: Adults with chronic post-stroke hemiparesis and walking deficits. INTERVENTIONS: ACC emphasized stepping accuracy and walking adaptability, while SS emphasized steady state, symmetrical stepping. Both included 36 sessions led by a licensed physical therapist. ACC walking tasks recruit cortical regions that increase corticospinal tract activation, while SS walking activates the corticospinal tract less intensely. MAIN MEASURES: The primary functional outcome measure was preferred steady state walking speed. Prefrontal brain activity during walking was measured with functional near infrared spectroscopy to assess executive control demands. Assessments were conducted at baseline, post-intervention (three months), and follow-up (six months). RESULTS: Thirty-eight participants were randomized to the study interventions (mean age 59.6 ± 9.1 years; mean months post-stroke 18.0 ± 10.5). Preferred walking speed increased from baseline to post-intervention by 0.13 ± 0.11 m/s in the ACC group and by 0.14 ± 0.13 m/s in the SS group. The Time × Group interaction was not statistically significant (P = 0.86). Prefrontal fNIRS during walking decreased from baseline to post-intervention, with a marginally larger effect in the ACC group (P = 0.05). CONCLUSIONS: The ACC and SS interventions produced similar changes in walking function. fNIRS suggested a potential benefit of ACC training for reducing demand on prefrontal (executive) resources during walking.


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Terapia por Ejercicio/métodos , Rehabilitación de Accidente Cerebrovascular , Accidente Cerebrovascular/complicaciones , Caminata/fisiología , Adulto , Anciano , Función Ejecutiva , Humanos , Masculino , Persona de Mediana Edad , Paresia , Método Simple Ciego
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Neuromodulation ; 24(5): 950-959, 2021 Jul.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32808403

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OBJECTIVES: This pilot study assessed whether frontal lobe transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) combined with complex walking rehabilitation is feasible, safe, and shows preliminary efficacy for improving walking and executive function. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Participants were randomized to one of the following 18-session interventions: active tDCS and rehabilitation with complex walking tasks (Active/Complex); sham tDCS and rehabilitation with complex walking tasks (Sham/Complex); or sham tDCS and rehabilitation with typical walking (Sham/Typical). Active tDCS was delivered over F3 (cathode) and F4 (anode) scalp locations for 20 min at 2 mA intensity. Outcome measures included tests of walking function, executive function, and prefrontal activity measured by functional near infrared spectroscopy. RESULTS: Ninety percent of participants completed the intervention protocol successfully. tDCS side effects of tingling or burning sensations were low (average rating less than two out of 10). All groups demonstrated gains in walking performance based on within-group effect sizes (d ≥ 0.50) for one or more assessments. The Sham/Typical group showed the greatest gains for walking based on between-group effect sizes. For executive function, the Active/Complex group showed the greatest gains based on moderate to large between-group effect sizes (d = 0.52-1.11). Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) findings suggest improved prefrontal cortical activity during walking. CONCLUSIONS: Eighteen sessions of walking rehabilitation combined with tDCS is a feasible and safe intervention for older adults. Preliminary effects size data indicate a potential improvement in executive function by adding frontal tDCS to walking rehabilitation. This study justifies future larger clinical trials to better understand the benefits of combining tDCS with walking rehabilitation.


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Estimulación Transcraneal de Corriente Directa , Anciano , Método Doble Ciego , Función Ejecutiva , Humanos , Proyectos Piloto , Corteza Prefrontal , Caminata
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J Biopharm Stat ; 30(1): 18-30, 2020.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31135263

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We propose an adaptive enrichment approach to test an active factor, which is a factor whose effect is non-zero in at least one subpopulation. We implement a two-stage play-the-winner design where all subjects in the second stage are enrolled from the subpopulation that has the highest observed effect in the first stage. We recommend a weighted Fisher's combination of the most powerful test for each stage, respectively: the first stage Hotelling's test and the second stage noncentral chi-square test. The test is further extended to cover binary outcomes and time-to-event outcomes.


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Ensayos Clínicos Adaptativos como Asunto/estadística & datos numéricos , Proyectos de Investigación/estadística & datos numéricos , Catastrofización/genética , Catastrofización/psicología , Catecol O-Metiltransferasa/genética , Interpretación Estadística de Datos , Humanos , Modelos Estadísticos , Polimorfismo de Nucleótido Simple , Dolor de Hombro/genética , Dolor de Hombro/psicología
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BMC Infect Dis ; 19(1): 379, 2019 May 03.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31053104

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BACKGROUND: The incidence of tuberculosis (TB) remains high worldwide. Current strategies will not eradicate TB by 2035; instead, by 2182 is more likely. Therefore, it is urgent that new risk factors be identified. METHODS: An ecological study was conducted in 340 prefectures in China from 2005 to 2015. The spatial distribution of TB incidence was shown by clustering and hotspot analysis. The relationship between the distribution patterns and six meteorological factors was evaluated by the geographically weighted regression (GWR) model. RESULTS: During the 11 years of the study period, TB incidence was persistently low in the east and high in the west. Local coefficients from the GWR model showed a positive correlation between TB incidence and yearly average rainfall (AR) but a negative correlation with other meteorological factors. Average relative humidity (ARH) was negatively correlated with the incidence of TB in all prefectures (p < 0.05). CONCLUSION: Meteorological factors may play an important role in the prevention and control of TB.


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Clima , Tuberculosis/epidemiología , China/epidemiología , Análisis por Conglomerados , Humanos , Incidencia , Factores de Riesgo , Tuberculosis/diagnóstico
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Brain ; 140(8): 2183-2192, 2017 Aug 01.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-28899020

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Progression markers of Parkinson's disease are crucial for successful therapeutic development. Recently, a diffusion magnetic resonance imaging analysis technique using a bitensor model was introduced allowing the estimation of the fractional volume of free water within a voxel, which is expected to increase in neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson's disease. Prior work demonstrated that free water in the posterior substantia nigra was elevated in Parkinson's disease compared to controls across single- and multi-site cohorts, and increased over 1 year in Parkinson's disease but not in controls at a single site. Here, the goal was to validate free water in the posterior substantia nigra as a progression marker in Parkinson's disease, and describe the pattern of progression of free water in patients with a 4-year follow-up tested in a multicentre international longitudinal study of de novo Parkinson's disease (http://www.ppmi-info.org/). The analyses examined: (i) 1-year changes in free water in 103 de novo patients with Parkinson's disease and 49 controls; (ii) 2- and 4-year changes in free water in a subset of 46 patients with Parkinson's disease imaged at baseline, 12, 24, and 48 months; (iii) whether 1- and 2-year changes in free water predict 4-year changes in the Hoehn and Yahr scale; and (iv) the relationship between 4-year changes in free water and striatal binding ratio in a subgroup of Parkinson's disease who had undergone both diffusion and dopamine transporter imaging. Results demonstrated that: (i) free water level in the posterior substantia nigra increased over 1 year in de novo Parkinson's disease but not in controls; (ii) free water kept increasing over 4 years in Parkinson's disease; (iii) sex and baseline free water predicted 4-year changes in free water; (iv) free water increases over 1 and 2 years were related to worsening on the Hoehn and Yahr scale over 4 years; and (v) the 4-year increase in free water was associated with the 4-year decrease in striatal binding ratio in the putamen. Importantly, all longitudinal results were consistent across sites. In summary, this study demonstrates an increase over 1 year in free water in the posterior substantia nigra in a large cohort of de novo patients with Parkinson's disease from a multi-site cohort study and no change in healthy controls, and further demonstrates an increase of free water in Parkinson's disease over the course of 4 years. A key finding was that results are consistent across sites and the 1-year and 2-year increase in free water in the posterior substantia nigra predicts subsequent long-term progression on the Hoehn and Yahr staging system. Collectively, these findings demonstrate that free water in the posterior substantia nigra is a valid, progression imaging marker of Parkinson's disease, which may be used in clinical trials of disease-modifying therapies.


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Progresión de la Enfermedad , Enfermedad de Parkinson/metabolismo , Agua/metabolismo , Biomarcadores/metabolismo , Estudios de Casos y Controles , Cuerpo Estriado/metabolismo , Imagen de Difusión por Resonancia Magnética , Proteínas de Transporte de Dopamina a través de la Membrana Plasmática/metabolismo , Femenino , Humanos , Estudios Longitudinales , Masculino , Persona de Mediana Edad , Neuroimagen , Sustancia Negra/metabolismo
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Med Care ; 54(3): 235-42, 2016 Mar.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26807537

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BACKGROUND: Effective poststroke rehabilitation care can speed patient recovery and minimize patient functional disabilities. Veterans affairs (VA) community living centers (CLCs) and VA-contracted community nursing homes (CNHs) are the 2 major sources of institutional long-term care for Veterans with stroke receiving care under VA auspices. OBJECTIVES: This study compares rehabilitation therapy and restorative nursing care among Veterans residing in VA CLCs versus those Veterans in VA-contracted CNHs. RESEARCH DESIGN: Retrospective observational. SUBJECTS: All Veterans diagnosed with stroke, newly admitted to the CLCs or CNHs during the study period who completed at least 2 Minimum Data Set assessments postadmission. MEASURES: The outcomes were numbers of days for rehabilitation therapy and restorative nursing care received by the Veterans during their stays in CLCs or CNHs as documented in the Minimum Data Set databases. RESULTS: For rehabilitation therapy, the CLC Veterans had lower user rates (75.2% vs. 76.4%, P=0.078) and fewer observed therapy days (4.9 vs. 6.4, P<0.001) than CNH Veterans. However, the CLC Veterans had higher adjusted odds for therapy (odds ratio=1.16, P=0.033), although they had fewer average therapy days (coefficient=-1.53±0.11, P<0.001). For restorative nursing care, CLC Veterans had higher user rates (33.5% vs. 30.6%, P<0.001), more observed average care days (9.4 vs. 5.9, P<0.001), higher adjusted odds (odds ratio=2.28, P<0.001), and more adjusted days for restorative nursing care (coefficient=5.48±0.37, P<0.001). CONCLUSION: Compared with their counterparts at VA-contracted CNHs, Veterans at VA CLCs had fewer average rehabilitation therapy days (both unadjusted and adjusted), but they were significantly more likely to receive restorative nursing care both before and after risk adjustment.


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Casas de Salud/estadística & datos numéricos , Centros de Rehabilitación/estadística & datos numéricos , Rehabilitación de Accidente Cerebrovascular , United States Department of Veterans Affairs/estadística & datos numéricos , Actividades Cotidianas , Anciano , Anciano de 80 o más Años , Femenino , Humanos , Cuidados a Largo Plazo , Masculino , Persona de Mediana Edad , Oportunidad Relativa , Características de la Residencia , Estudios Retrospectivos , Factores Socioeconómicos , Factores de Tiempo , Estados Unidos
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Clin Rehabil ; 30(3): 294-302, 2016 Mar.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-25810426

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OBJECTIVE: To ascertain the existence of discordance between perceived and measured balance in persons with stroke and to examine the impact on walking speed and falls. DESIGN: A secondary analysis of a phase three, multicentered randomized controlled trial examining walking recovery following stroke. SUBJECTS: A total of 352 participants from the Locomotor Experience Applied Post-Stroke (LEAPS) trial. METHODS: Participants were categorized into four groups: two concordant and two discordant groups in relation to measured and perceived balance. Number and percentage of individuals with concordance and discordance were evaluated at two and 12 months. Walking speed and fall incidence between groups were examined. MAIN MEASURES: Perceived balance was measured by the Activities-Specific Balance Confidence scale, measured balance was determined by the Berg Balance Scale and gait speed was measured by the 10-meter walk test. RESULTS: Discordance was present for 35.8% of participants at two months post stroke with no statistically significant change in proportion at 12 months. Discordant participants with high perceived balance and low measured balance walked 0.09 m/s faster at two months than participants with concordant low perceived and measured balance (p < 0.05). Discordant participants with low perceived balance and high measured balance walked 0.15 m/s slower than those that were concordant with high perceived and measured balance (p ⩽ 0.0001) at 12 months. Concordant participants with high perceived and measured balance walked fastest and had fewer falls. CONCLUSIONS: Discordance existed between perceived and measured balance in one-third of individuals at two and 12 months post-stroke. Perceived balance impacted gait speed but not fall incidence.


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Accidentes por Caídas/estadística & datos numéricos , Equilibrio Postural , Autoimagen , Accidente Cerebrovascular/fisiopatología , Accidente Cerebrovascular/psicología , Velocidad al Caminar , Anciano , Femenino , Humanos , Incidencia , Masculino , Persona de Mediana Edad , Recuperación de la Función , Accidente Cerebrovascular/complicaciones , Rehabilitación de Accidente Cerebrovascular
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BMC Health Serv Res ; 15: 150, 2015 Apr 09.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-25880898

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BACKGROUND: Initial management decisions following a new episode of low back pain (LBP) are thought to have profound implications for health care utilization and costs. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of early and guideline adherent physical therapy for low back pain on utilization and costs within the Military Health System (MHS). METHODS: Patients presenting to a primary care setting with a new complaint of LBP from January 1, 2007 to December 31, 2009 were identified from the MHS Management Analysis and Reporting Tool. Descriptive statistics, utilization, and costs were examined on the basis of timing of referral to physical therapy and adherence to practice guidelines over a 2-year period. Utilization outcomes (advanced imaging, lumbar injections or surgery, and opioid use) were compared using adjusted odds ratios with 99% confidence intervals. Total LBP-related health care costs over the 2-year follow-up were compared using linear regression models. RESULTS: 753,450 eligible patients with a primary care visit for LBP between 18-60 years of age were considered. Physical therapy was utilized by 16.3% (n = 122,723) of patients, with 24.0% (n = 17,175) of those receiving early physical therapy that was adherent to recommendations for active treatment. Early referral to guideline adherent physical therapy was associated with significantly lower utilization for all outcomes and 60% lower total LBP-related costs. CONCLUSIONS: The potential for cost savings in the MHS from early guideline adherent physical therapy may be substantial. These results also extend the findings from similar studies in civilian settings by demonstrating an association between early guideline adherent care and utilization and costs in a single payer health system. Future research is necessary to examine which patients with LBP benefit early physical therapy and determine strategies for providing early guideline adherent care.


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Ahorro de Costo/estadística & datos numéricos , Adhesión a Directriz/economía , Costos de la Atención en Salud/estadística & datos numéricos , Dolor de la Región Lumbar/economía , Dolor de la Región Lumbar/rehabilitación , Modalidades de Fisioterapia/economía , Modalidades de Fisioterapia/estadística & datos numéricos , Adolescente , Adulto , Diagnóstico Precoz , Femenino , Adhesión a Directriz/estadística & datos numéricos , Hospitales Militares/estadística & datos numéricos , Humanos , Modelos Lineales , Masculino , Persona de Mediana Edad , Oportunidad Relativa , Estados Unidos , Adulto Joven
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N Engl J Med ; 364(21): 2026-36, 2011 May 26.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-21612471

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BACKGROUND: Locomotor training, including the use of body-weight support in treadmill stepping, is a physical therapy intervention used to improve recovery of the ability to walk after stroke. The effectiveness and appropriate timing of this intervention have not been established. METHODS: We stratified 408 participants who had had a stroke 2 months earlier according to the extent of walking impairment--moderate (able to walk 0.4 to <0.8 m per second) or severe (able to walk <0.4 m per second)--and randomly assigned them to one of three training groups. One group received training on a treadmill with the use of body-weight support 2 months after the stroke had occurred (early locomotor training), the second group received this training 6 months after the stroke had occurred (late locomotor training), and the third group participated in an exercise program at home managed by a physical therapist 2 months after the stroke (home-exercise program). Each intervention included 36 sessions of 90 minutes each for 12 to 16 weeks. The primary outcome was the proportion of participants in each group who had an improvement in functional walking ability 1 year after the stroke. RESULTS: At 1 year, 52.0% of all participants had increased functional walking ability. No significant differences in improvement were found between early locomotor training and home exercise (adjusted odds ratio for the primary outcome, 0.83; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.50 to 1.39) or between late locomotor training and home exercise (adjusted odds ratio, 1.19; 95% CI, 0.72 to 1.99). All groups had similar improvements in walking speed, motor recovery, balance, functional status, and quality of life. Neither the delay in initiating the late locomotor training nor the severity of the initial impairment affected the outcome at 1 year. Ten related serious adverse events were reported (occurring in 2.2% of participants undergoing early locomotor training, 3.5% of those undergoing late locomotor training, and 1.6% of those engaging in home exercise). As compared with the home-exercise group, each of the groups receiving locomotor training had a higher frequency of dizziness or faintness during treatment (P=0.008). Among patients with severe walking impairment, multiple falls were more common in the group receiving early locomotor training than in the other two groups (P=0.02). CONCLUSIONS: Locomotor training, including the use of body-weight support in stepping on a treadmill, was not shown to be superior to progressive exercise at home managed by a physical therapist. (Funded by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke and the National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research; LEAPS ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT00243919.).


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Terapia por Ejercicio , Rehabilitación de Accidente Cerebrovascular , Caminata , Accidentes por Caídas , Anciano , Peso Corporal , Método Doble Ciego , Terapia por Ejercicio/efectos adversos , Terapia por Ejercicio/instrumentación , Femenino , Servicios de Atención de Salud a Domicilio , Humanos , Masculino , Persona de Mediana Edad , Modalidades de Fisioterapia , Accidente Cerebrovascular/fisiopatología
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Stat Med ; 33(16): 2736-45, 2014 Jul 20.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-24577792

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Adaptive design of clinical trials has attracted considerable interest because of its potential of reducing costs and saving time in the clinical development process. In this paper, we consider the problem of assessing the effectiveness of a test treatment over a control by a two-arm randomized clinical trial in a potentially heterogenous patient population. In particular, we study enrichment designs that use accumulating data from a clinical trial to adaptively determine patient subpopulation in which the treatment effect is eventually assessed. A hypothesis testing procedure and a lower confidence limit are presented for the treatment effect in the selected patient subgroups. The performances of the new methods are compared with existing approaches through a simulation study.


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Modelos Estadísticos , Ensayos Clínicos Controlados Aleatorios como Asunto , Proyectos de Investigación , Resultado del Tratamiento , Humanos , Ensayos Clínicos Controlados Aleatorios como Asunto/estadística & datos numéricos
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Cogn Behav Neurol ; 27(2): 77-87, 2014 Jun.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-24968008

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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: We previously reported a randomized, sham-controlled trial of 5 Hz dorsolateral prefrontal left- and right-side repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) in 48 participants with a medically refractory major depressive disorder. Depression improved most with right-side cranial stimulation, both rTMS and sham, and to a lesser degree with left rTMS. Because depression is often associated with cognitive impairment, in this study we sought to determine whether our earlier participants had treatment-induced changes in cognition, which cognitive domains (language, executive, visuospatial, verbal episodic memory, attention) were affected, and whether treatment-induced cognitive changes were related either to improvement in depression or to other treatment variables, such as right versus left treatment and rTMS versus sham. METHODS: We used hierarchical regression analyses to determine how variables measured at baseline or associated with treatment affected changes in neuropsychological functions. The variables were neuropsychological function in the 5 domains, severity of depression, change in depression with treatment, rTMS versus sham, laterality of stimulation, and rTMS-laterality interaction. RESULTS: Compared to sham, right rTMS was associated with 1.24 standard deviations greater gain in language function, 1.09 standard deviations greater gain in visuospatial function, and 2.38 standard deviations greater gain in verbal episodic memory than left rTMS. These improvements did not appear to be directly related to the relief from depression. CONCLUSIONS: Our results suggest that disorders of cognition and mood in depression may have different mechanisms, but right rTMS may treat both. We propose potential mechanisms underlying the right-side rTMS effect. CLINICAL TRIAL REGISTRATION: Clinicaltrials.gov NCT00711568.


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Cognición , Depresión/terapia , Trastorno Depresivo Mayor/terapia , Estimulación Magnética Transcraneal , Adulto , Anciano , Atención , Trastornos del Conocimiento/psicología , Trastornos del Conocimiento/terapia , Depresión/psicología , Trastorno Depresivo Mayor/psicología , Función Ejecutiva , Femenino , Lateralidad Funcional , Humanos , Lenguaje , Modelos Lineales , Masculino , Memoria Episódica , Persona de Mediana Edad , Pruebas Neuropsicológicas , Corteza Prefrontal , Percepción Espacial , Estimulación Magnética Transcraneal/métodos , Resultado del Tratamiento , Percepción Visual
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IEEE Trans Inf Forensics Secur ; 19: 5751-5766, 2024.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38993695

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Conducting secure computations to protect against malicious adversaries is an emerging field of research. Current models designed for malicious security typically necessitate the involvement of two or more servers in an honest-majority setting. Among privacy-preserving data mining techniques, significant attention has been focused on the classification problem. Logistic regression emerges as a well-established classification model, renowned for its impressive performance. We introduce a novel matrix encryption method to build a maliciously secure logistic model. Our scheme involves only a single semi-honest server and is resilient to malicious data providers that may deviate arbitrarily from the scheme. The d -transformation ensures that our scheme achieves indistinguishability (i.e., no adversary can determine, in polynomial time, which of the plaintexts corresponds to a given ciphertext in a chosen-plaintext attack). Malicious activities of data providers can be detected in the verification stage. A lossy compression method is implemented to minimize communication costs while preserving negligible degradation in accuracy. Experiments illustrate that our scheme is highly efficient to analyze large-scale datasets and achieves accuracy similar to non-private models. The proposed scheme outperforms other maliciously secure frameworks in terms of computation and communication costs.

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Geroscience ; 46(5): 4075-4110, 2024 Oct.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38789832

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Aging is a public health concern with an ever-increasing magnitude worldwide. An array of neuroscience-based approaches like transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) and cognitive training have garnered attention in the last decades to ameliorate the effects of cognitive aging in older adults. This study evaluated the effects of 3 months of bilateral tDCS over the frontal cortices with multimodal cognitive training on working memory capacity. Two hundred ninety-two older adults without dementia were allocated to active or sham tDCS paired with cognitive training. These participants received repeated sessions of bilateral tDCS over the bilateral frontal cortices, combined with multimodal cognitive training. Working memory capacity was assessed with the digit span forward, backward, and sequencing tests. No baseline differences between active and sham groups were observed. Multiple linear regressions indicated more improvement of the longest digit span backward from baseline to post-intervention (p = 0.021) and a trend towards greater improvement (p = 0.056) of the longest digit span backward from baseline to 1 year in the active tDCS group. No significant between-group changes were observed for digit span forward or digit span sequencing. The present results provide evidence for the potential for tDCS paired with cognitive training to remediate age-related declines in working memory capacity. These findings are sourced from secondary outcomes in a large randomized clinical trial and thus deserve future targeted investigation in older adult populations.


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Entrenamiento Cognitivo , Memoria a Corto Plazo , Estimulación Transcraneal de Corriente Directa , Anciano , Anciano de 80 o más Años , Femenino , Humanos , Masculino , Persona de Mediana Edad , Cognición/fisiología , Envejecimiento Cognitivo/fisiología , Entrenamiento Cognitivo/métodos , Memoria a Corto Plazo/fisiología , Pruebas Neuropsicológicas , Estimulación Transcraneal de Corriente Directa/métodos
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Geroscience ; 46(4): 3929-3943, 2024 08.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38457007

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Cognitive training using a visual speed-of-processing task, called the Useful Field of View (UFOV) task, reduced dementia risk and reduced decline in activities of daily living at a 10-year follow-up in older adults. However, there was variability in the achievement of cognitive gains after cognitive training across studies, suggesting moderating factors. Learning trials of visual and verbal learning tasks recruit similar cognitive abilities and have overlapping neural correlates with speed-of-processing/working memory tasks and therefore could serve as potential moderators of cognitive training gains. This study explored the association between the Hopkins Verbal Learning Test-Revised (HVLT-R) and Brief Visuospatial Memory Test-Revised (BVMT-R) learning with a commercial UFOV task called Double Decision. Through a secondary analysis of a clinical trial, we assessed the moderation of HVLT-R and BVMT-R learning on Double Decision improvement after a 3-month speed-of-processing/attention and working memory cognitive training intervention in a sample of 75 cognitively healthy older adults. Multiple linear regressions showed that better baseline Double Decision performance was significantly associated with better BVMT-R learning (ß = - .303). This association was not significant for HVLT-R learning (ß = - .142). Moderation analysis showed that those with poorer BVMT-R learning improved the most on the Double Decision task after cognitive training. This suggests that healthy older adults who perform below expectations on cognitive tasks related to the training task may show the greatest training gains. Future cognitive training research studying visual speed-of-processing interventions should account for differing levels of visuospatial learning at baseline, as this could impact the magnitude of training outcomes and efficacy of the intervention.


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Memoria a Corto Plazo , Humanos , Masculino , Femenino , Anciano , Memoria a Corto Plazo/fisiología , Pruebas de Memoria y Aprendizaje , Toma de Decisiones/fisiología , Cognición/fisiología , Pruebas Neuropsicológicas , Anciano de 80 o más Años , Entrenamiento Cognitivo
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Stroke ; 44(6): 1660-9, 2013 Jun.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-23640829

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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Drop foot after stroke may be addressed using an ankle foot orthosis (AFO) or a foot drop stimulator (FDS). The Functional Ambulation: Standard Treatment versus Electric Stimulation Therapy (FASTEST) trial was a multicenter, randomized, single-blinded trial comparing FDS and AFO for drop foot among people ≥ 3 months after stroke with gait speed ≤ 0.8 m/s. METHODS: Participants (n=197; 79 females and 118 males; 61.14 ± 11.61 years of age; time after stroke 4.55 ± 4.72 years) were randomized to 30 weeks of either FDS or a standard AFO. Eight dose-matched physical therapy sessions were provided to both groups during the first 6 weeks of the trial. RESULTS: There was significant improvement within both groups from baseline to 30 weeks in comfortable gait speed (95% confidence interval for mean change, 0.11-0.17 m/s for FDS and 0.12-0.18 m/s for AFO) and fast gait speed. However, no significant differences in gait speed were found in the between-group comparisons. Secondary outcomes (standard measures of body structure and function, activity, and participation) improved significantly in both groups, whereas user satisfaction was significantly higher in the FDS group than in the control group. CONCLUSIONS: Using either an FDS or an AFO for 30 weeks yielded clinically and statistically significant improvements in gait speed and other functional outcomes. User satisfaction was higher in the FDS group. Although both groups did receive intervention, this large clinical trial provides evidence that FDS or AFO with initial physical therapy sessions can provide a significant and clinically meaningful benefit even years after stroke. Clinical Trial Registration Information- URL: http://www.clinicaltrials.gov. Unique Identifier: NCT01138995.


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Articulación del Tobillo , Terapia por Estimulación Eléctrica , Articulaciones del Pie , Ortesis del Pié , Trastornos Neurológicos de la Marcha/etiología , Trastornos Neurológicos de la Marcha/terapia , Accidente Cerebrovascular/complicaciones , Accidentes por Caídas/estadística & datos numéricos , Anciano , Femenino , Marcha/fisiología , Trastornos Neurológicos de la Marcha/fisiopatología , Humanos , Incidencia , Estudios Longitudinales , Masculino , Persona de Mediana Edad , Evaluación de Resultado en la Atención de Salud , Satisfacción del Paciente , Modalidades de Fisioterapia , Método Simple Ciego , Resultado del Tratamiento
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